(1) Regular elections for members of representative bodies of units and elections for municipality heads, mayors and county prefects and their deputies shall be held at the same time, on the third Sunday in May every fourth year.

(2) Early elections for members of representative bodies of units whose term of office has ended due to the dissolution of the body shall be held within 90 days of the day the representative body was dissolved. 

(3) Early elections for municipality heads, mayors and county prefects shall be called in cases when this is prescribed by the law regulating the system of local and regional selfgovernment, and shall be held within 90 days of the day the term of office of the municipality head, mayor or county prefect was terminated. 

(4) Early elections shall be held at the same time for members of representative bodies and for the municipality head, mayor or county prefect, if the representative body was dissolved and the municipality head, mayor or county prefect was dismissed at the same time, within 90 days of the dissolution of the representative body and the dismissal of the municipality head, mayor or prefect.

(5) Early elections for deputy municipality head, mayor, or county prefect from among national minorities shall be held within 90 days of the termination of the term of office of the deputy municipality head, mayor or county prefect from among the national minorities.

(6) If the early elections referred to in paragraphs 2, 3, 4 and 5 of this Article are to be held in the calendar year in which regular elections are to be held, before they are held, early elections shall not be held in that unit.

(7) If the term of office is terminated of only the deputy municipality head, mayor or county prefect, who was elected together with the municipality head, mayor or county prefect, no early elections shall be held.